How to Use production line in a Sentence

production line

noun
  • He works on the production line at the local factory.
  • One worker threw up on the production line but was allowed to keep working, the suits allege.
    Kate Gibson, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2020
  • Toyota, for instance, has typically held only four hours on the production line at its U.K. car plant.
    Alistair MacDonald, WSJ, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Once Wyatt commits himself to becoming a part of Brown’s production line, his name doesn’t appear again.
    Scott Bradfield, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Typically those companies choose to outsource the work, rather than retool or build a new production line, because the sales volumes are relatively small.
    Chris Bryant, Chron, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Moderna itself has one production line with capacity for 100 million doses a year.
    Naomi Kresge, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2020
  • That production line is being consolidated at a non-union factory in South Carolina.
    Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020
  • For example, an iPhone 12 can be positioned with its camera monitoring a production line in a factory.
    Clare Duffy, CNN, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Wallace had tracked down the designer, the plant manager, the production line inspector and the painter to sign his car much like a collector of Broadway playbills would have actors sign program pages.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The last Pullman Palace car rolled off the production line in 1956.
    Susan Degrane, chicagotribune.com, 29 Nov. 2021
  • The vials wobbled, and some fell down, jamming the production line.
    WSJ, 11 Dec. 2021
  • At about 5:30, a half-hour into her shift, sirens blared over the production line.
    New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • This is the production line for a living box in which to bury dead people.
    William Ralston, Wired, 26 July 2022
  • The Deluxe sells for more than the Cheapo, costs more to manufacture and takes up more time on the production line.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, only one has rolled off the production line so far.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Today the first Tesla Semis are close to rolling off the production line.
    Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 May 2021
  • The camp’s first golfer would share his club, but never his ball, and so the great ball production line began.
    Jack Bantock, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The change does not affect hourly workers on the production line.
    Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 13 July 2021
  • The aim is to roll out the Volkswagen unified cell off the production line in Salzgitter from 2025.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The main holdup for Ellume has been getting enough swabs for its production line.
    Hannah Norman, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Lund said the airplane was at the end of the production line when it was determined that the rivets would need to be replaced.
    Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • It was assembled here, in secret and well away from the main production line.
    Alistair Charlton, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • On one production line, people put the Peeps into trays by hand.
    Kevin Dupzyk Christopher Payne, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • On the first day, the cubbies didn’t open; last month, a stray potato shut down Kernel’s production line.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The production lines run on two 11.5-hour shifts per day, which remains unchanged.
    Bloomberg, Fortune Asia, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Vials of the vaccine moving along the production line at the Serum Institute.
    Eric Bellman, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Last month, the first Tesla Cybertruck rolled off the production line, but anyone who pre-ordered the truck will still have to wait.
    Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Over the years, Vertu has been responsible for some of the most tasteless and gaudy phones to roll off a production line.
    Andrew Williams, WIRED, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Musk has even claimed that Optimus robots will soon be working at Tesla on the production line.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024
  • This includes lower energy consumption and better circularity of the polymers back into the PET production lines.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 6 Aug. 2024

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